PAVES CROSSING ZONES

MANTRA OF THE PAVES

2010-09-09T07:13:00.001-07:00

Poshya Kakl Poshya Kakl Poshya Kakl Poshya Kakl

Anne Bean Anne Bean Anne Bean Anne Bean Anne Bean

Vlasta Delimar Vlasta Delimar Vlasta Delimar Vlasta Delimar

Efi Ben David Efi Ben David Efi Ben David Efi Ben David

Sinead O'Donnell Sinead O'Donnell Sinead O'Donnell

Mantra of the PAVES

2010-09-09T07:00:00.001-07:00

EVERY DAY I AM READING AND WATCHING THIS TEXT. IT IS LIKE MANTRA. IT IS VERY SUGGESTIVELY. IT IS LIKE PRAY.

Efi action for PAVES 15\8\10

2010-09-02T15:36:00.000-07:00

15/8/10
me and my mother had a strong experience at the PAVES beach... it was amazing to read you 2 thought about drawing our faces together... and this is the action I did eventually... in the morning we took something out of my father car to my car... and suddenly he said there is some photos of our faces in his car... the ones that vlasta made in hundreds and brought to Tel Aviv... we took them with us and in the afternoon at the beach I put them - all our faces- one on another and put them together on the waves... and sent them away together... I made a video of this.. I hope I'll manage to upload it somehow... so you can see... big love, Efi

‘PAVES-FACES’

2010-09-01T16:07:00.001-07:00

Artist: Poshya Kakl
Medium: Drawing.
Location: Erbil(Hawler) / Kurdistan of Iraq
Date: 15/August/2010

The face has so many expressive ingredients it enables us to breath,
see, talk, eat, think, smell and all together with the same part of
the body. 'PAVES-FACES' drawings look deeper at each
PAVES artist's face in particular the eyes and mouth. It is my
feeling that these two parts of the face are the most telling toward
the spirit of someone's being, I have made these drawings in an
attempt to unveil our feelings for each other further and I have
placed the PAVES logo below each of our portraits. I hope you like
your new self!

Voices on planet PAVES - 31 August, 2010.

2010-09-01T14:09:00.000-07:00

An experimental sound and language piece, the first time for all PAVES work together through sound. This work was produced with Helen Kaplinsky for Resonance FM.

Sinead/Anne - PAVES Interview with Helen Kaplinsky, London, August, 2010. For Resonance FM

2010-09-01T03:40:00.000-07:00

sinead ' you are on my mind'august paves crossing zones 2010

2010-08-30T17:01:00.001-07:00

I moved in transit between the south and north of ireland
attempting to make a silent action that would just fit into the
landscape driving by
I discovered that nothing is silent even silence itself and nothing fits in before you have time to unravel it and figure it out

drawing the world

2010-08-15T07:05:00.001-07:00

I spent the day drawing memories of all our journeys together.
All the borders we crossed or couldn't cross. Drawings and thoughts
mixed together

Strange that you just emailed this, Sinead:

I am moving between Dublin and Belfast
On a journey thinking about visible and invisible borders
The Irish / N.Irish border is invisable now
It wasn't like this all the time
There used to be a military border
But now Irish citizens can cross back and forward freely between
Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland

I had been thinking how the so -called Peace Lines that we visited,
separated Belfast (Protestant and Catholic areas) as a barrier and
border and yet we didn't even notice crossing the border into the
Republic of Ireland (Eire)

I picked up a globe of the world and starting drawing various journeys
on it, finally covering all the land in red. I spun it round and
round so it was almost like a crystal ball i could stare into and
meditate on. I remember having a globe as a child and putting my hands
over it and feeling like a giant and wondering what i would do if i
was a giant holding the world. I worried about holding it gently
enough. My hands look very old now holding this globe covered in a
red land mass.

PAVES film showing and talk

2010-08-11T17:57:00.001-07:00

@Toynbee Studios, London

10 Aug 2010, 7pm

Anne Bean and Sinead O’Donnell present documentation of the PAVES year, edited into a 30 minute film by Anne Bean and Chris Bishop, followed by an informal, open discussion about the project.

PAVES at Plitvicka jezera falls 25.05.2010.

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Delimar to PAVES

2010-05-25T02:54:00.000-07:00

PAVES Action@TATE MODERN 15.05.2010

2010-05-25T01:36:00.000-07:00

I went to Tate Modern where they had a big event called No Soul for
Sale about alternative spaces from around the world. I printed loads
of paper headed 15th MAy 2010 PAVES Action with an email from Poshya
and one from Sinead that i received that same morning and other PAVES
info and writing. I put them on lots of stalls and people took them
and i had lots of PAVES chats-- totally energising

Poshya at the zoo- Efi action for crossing zones- 15/5/10

2010-05-24T22:27:00.001-07:00

Poshya Kakl commented on your photo (via facebook):

"wow..so nice,,, iam so child in there"

PAVES having fun at the zoo

2010-05-24T22:08:00.001-07:00

yesterday we had a wonderful day together at the zoo

Sinead O'Donnell - PAVES - Crossing Zones - 15th of May 2010 - 'Ankle Rubbing'

2010-05-22T18:15:00.000-07:00

Dear PAVES

I thought about all of you and felt you.
I did have

projected name of VLASTA in my head which visually was like
a banner.
It is so exciting to see what was you world after we finish the
phychic transmission of thought and action.
I just felt like rubbing my ankles together, some sort of feeling
occurs. I rubbed my ankles gentle together while sitting on my PAVES
sketch book. I held a good srong piece of lead pencil in each hand and
made PAVES
drawing. There was sence of body connection my gentle ankle feeling
and harder head connection.

Poshya Kakl - 15th May 2010 Crossing Zones PAVES

2010-05-22T17:20:00.000-07:00

One greeting from invisible girl for all PAVES
I am here ..! but I don't knew why? …I wishful if I know it until I will to tell you.. but realy I don't knew..! it is only a question when I am thinkig of myself with my environment, ask it for myself.. every day some wordes oscillating around me..
And they have a life history with me and with this palce when I live in.. like as
( Blood.. Bloodthirsty .. Kidnapping..Bang..Desructive..Honor Killing......
Women problems , young problems, children problems , education problems..
Visa ..War..and World,,,,more..) all these words are outside of me and, always I have some another words inside myself like as ( Art,,PAVES,, Love.. Fancy.. performance art..peace..freedom.. change..travel.. disobedience.. study..actions ,, ,… )
Indeed my words are so different with the words of outside me and I am live in..! I was combined it and I worte them on one of laceration mirror by lipstick when every day I am looking myself through this mirror at 15 may until now …and I ask for myself:
Where is me?
Where are you?
It was about my action to 15 may so sorry about my lateness because of my laptop was broken and my father was travled to another town with his laptop.. but my action is continuation every days until now ,, always I take photoes of it for you by myself because nobody don't helpe me for taking photoes ..
With best wishes for all PAVES..
Poshya

Crossing Zones

2010-05-22T16:08:00.001-07:00

A day of working together in time

For five hours on 15th May and 15th of August 2009 in each of our countries we simultaneously worked with the awareness of a shared conscious space.

Frontiers, borders, demarcations, boundaries, barriers, bureaucracy, officialdom, laws, regulations and rules all became irrelevant to the fact that we were making a collaborative piece.

PAVES has proved an incredible arena for the exploration of edges of being, edges of places, edges of identities, edges of definition.

After 12 months of working together we decided to use the concept of crossing zones as a place to connect, feel and be with each other.

We started this site in 2010 to further the ability to connect and communicate with each other and make this unique communication and collaboration accessible to others.

PAVES

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Poshya Kakil, Anne Bean, Vlasta Delimar, Efi Ben-David, Sinead
O'Donnell

March 2009 - March 2010

Reflecting on how intense, wider political context inevitably sculpts
work, Anne Bean, who grew up in Zambia, has invited artists from
Ireland, Israel, Croatia and Kurdistan-Iraq to collaborate.

In the first instance, the artists spent a week in residence at
Toynbee Studios in March 2009 making, showing and seeing work
together. At the end of the week, they opened their studio to share
thoughts, work and experiences.

Then, on 15th May, the artists spent a day in each of their countries
working together in time to create Crossing Zones. For five hours,
they simultaneously worked with the awareness of a shared conscious
space. Frontiers, borders, demarcations, boundaries, barriers,
bureaucracy, officialdom, laws, regulations and rules all became
irrelevant to the fact that they were making a collaborative piece.

The second phase of the project took place in Zagreb andStaglinec,
Croatia from 15th to 21st June and the third phase took place in
Belfast and Cavan, Northern Ireland from 14th to 20th September. In
December 2009, the artists travelled to Tel Aviv and, whilst there,
visitedJordan to meet Poshya. The project will culminate in a
residency and performance commissioned by New Moves International for
the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow in March 2010.

PAVES is a year long collaboration between the artists supported by
the British Council's Creative Collaboration programme and Arts
Council England. The overall aim of the Creative Collaborations
programme is to enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding
countries and to build trust and understanding across communities by
generating dialogue and debate.

Poshya has not been permitted to travel for the project so she has
been participating from her home in Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq. On a recent
visit to Kurdistan, Anne collaborated with Poshya on They Are Talking
To Us and I am Thirsty which also included the other PAVES artists.